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Women also Know
The Scholarly Kitchen, a website, blog and podcast about scholarly publishing, just published an impressive list of resources listing women experts. Why? “There are, alas, still too many examples of journalism, panels, conferences, and book lists with what my dad called “pale male syndrome.” A pale male engineer himself, he long ago made the sensible […]
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Ranke.2 Digital Source Criticism
Ranke.2 presents a new resource for historians and other humanists to discuss and teach the hermeneutics of source evaluation: Objectives of Ranke.2 How digitisation and the web have changed the nature of historical research. How digital objects are created (retro-digitised, born-digital, converted documents). What changes when an analogue source is turned into a digital representation. […]
[Read More]Blog by Anke Finger
Welcome back: It’s Year 2 for DHMS
As the semester gets under way, DHMS is ready to roll out a number of updates, news, and events for the new academic year 2017/18. Welcome back, everyone! First a quick review of Year 1: following the creation of the brand new graduate certificate in Digital Humanities and Media Studies in February – with much-appreciated […]
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Watch Your .edu, Know Your Repositories
In a January 2017 Forbes article on scholarly publishing, historian Sarah Bond takes aim at platforms ready to host academic articles or chapters. For pay. Her case in point is academia.edu: As privatized platforms like Academia.edu look to monetize scholarly writing even further, researchers, scientists and academics across the globe must now consider alternatives to proprietary companies […]
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New Graduate Certificate in Digital Humanities and Media Studies
The first brainbytes blog of the spring semester serves as an announcement: UCONN has a brand new Graduate Certificate! Welcome back. Pending final approval by the Board of Trustees, the Humanities Institute is pleased to announce a Graduate Certificate in DHMS. This certificate will supply interested graduate students with crucial training and with marketable skills […]
[Read More]DHMS Q & A
Yohei Igarashi, Assistant Professor of English
1. What initially intrigued you about research/teaching in digital humanities or media studies? I was immersed in media studies from the very start of grad school, but not really before then. One of the first courses I took as a masters student at Columbia focused on media studies, and later, when I was a Ph.D. […]
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Jennifer Snow, Digital Scholarship Librarian
1. What initially intrigued you about research/teaching in digital humanities or media studies? I began my work at UConn as the History Librarian six years ago, and I have slowly grown my skills and interests from there. I have a Master’s in History, although I was trained in the traditional research methodologies. Digital humanities didn’t […]
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